LAHORE, Jan 23: Supreme Court Bar Association president Ali Ahmed Kurd has said that 100,000 lawyers and civil society members are determined to stage a sit-in on the Constitution Avenue in Islamabad on March 9.

Addressing a press conference on the pavement outside the Supreme Court Registry here on Friday after cancelling a meeting of the association’s executive committee in protest against stopping journalists from entering the building, Mr Kurd said the SC registrar was forcing the bar to change the peaceful mode of its struggle.

He said the lawyers had so far remained peaceful in their struggle for restoration of the Constitution, but their protests could turn violent if the media was not allowed to cover the proceedings of the next meeting.

Answering a question about a statement by Aitzaz Ahsan that sit-ins would be staged whenever participants of the March 9 long march would be stopped, Mr Kurd said no decision to the effect had been taken by the committee.